A few recent jobs

[brian the brush uk]

Hi all,
Here are a few recent jobs, all hand painted or gilded in between the autumnal rain showers !!

Brian.
www.brianthebrushuk.com

 

[signmeup]

Looks good Brian. What's with the monkey bars in the 4th photo? Is that typical scaffolding in England?

 

[GAC05]

Interesting work
I would say nice cock but that does not sound right.

The gilded work from your web page looks great.
Did you have to empty that whisky bottle before you worked on it?


wayne k
guam usa

 

[brian the brush uk]

Hi Guys,
Signmeup, 'scaffolding' was needed due to the cross being very very high, took the photo with a zooooooom on the camera, the UK is very 'health and safety' these days, I can remember when you just did the job, now there are lots of forms to fill in and rules to adhere too, oh I loved the 'good old days' ha ha !!

Wayne, thanks for the comments, the whisky bottle was an interesting project, the distillery was in Scotland and were interested in having 10.000 bottles hand gilded for export to the far east, the contents were expensive and they wanted a traditional feel to the branding. They sent us a couple of bottles to be used to produce the samples, empty of course !! and the project never moved forward due to the world wide resession !! I'm not a whisky drinker by the way, we drink tea here and love it !! ha ha !!

Cheers,
Brian.
www.brianthebrushuk.com

 

[GP]

Great work Brian -

You might adjust your web site link in your user profile as well. It gets misdirected.

GP

 

[Billct2]

Great work.

 

[skyhigh]

Hi Guys,
Signmeup, 'scaffolding' was needed due to the cross being very very high, took the photo with a zooooooom on the camera, the UK is very 'health and safety' these days, I can remember when you just did the job, now there are lots of forms to fill in and rules to adhere too, oh I loved the 'good old days' ha ha !!

Cheers,
Brian.
www.brianthebrushuk.com

Just curious....what do you consider "very very high" ? That looks like a lot of work setting up scaffording for a small(er) project. They don't have bucket trucks in the UK? Scaffolding scares the beegeezers out of me. Give me a big heavy truck with outriggers under my butt.

You do nice work.

 

[brian the brush uk]

Many thanks for the comments guys,

Skyhigh,
The cross was positioned on the tight apex of the church attached to Liverpool University and impossible to reach by any other method, the university were having the church roof repaired so the scaffold was extended higher for me to work from. The cross was actually stainless steel and needed special preparation in order that the goldleaf would adhere correctly, always problems painting stainless steel !!

Brian.
www.brianthebrushuk.com

 

[Jillbeans]

Nice work, especially on the corrugated wall.
It would be tricky for me to get all those thin letters uniform.
And the scaffolding makes my nostrils twitch, yikes that looks intimidating.
Love....Jill

 

[kstompaint]

I'd like to see the photos of the scaffold around the cross with out the zoom on. I'm thinkin' there's no check big enough to get me to the top of that contraption.